Hose-supporter.



PATBNTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

F. G. MUDONALD.

HOSE SUPPORTEB.

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Patented September 22, 1903'.y

'PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCES oLorILDA MCDONALD, or CHICAGO, iLLiNois.

Hose-SUPPORTER.

sPEoIFIcA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patentivo. 739,698, dated september 22, 1903.

. Application filed March 2l. 1903.`

To a/ZZ whom it may concern;

' Beit known that I, FRANCES CLo'rrLDA Mo- DONALD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hose-Supporters, ofv which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

lThis invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in garment-supportingY devices, and has particular application to an article commonly known as a' hose supporter.

In carrying out the present invention I have particularly in View the provision of a device which will firmly and securely retain the upper edge of the stocking throughthe medium of a locking device, which forms an important part of my improvement.

A further object of the present invention isto provide a supporter which will be exceedingly simple in its construction and positive in its operation, while embodying the essential features of cheapness and convenience.

With these and other objects of a similar nature in View theinvention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement delineated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the appended. claims.'

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a view of a hose-supporter having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same, showing the part-s of the supporter in their operative or stocking-retaining 'position; and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the parts in their unlocked or non-supporting position.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, 1 designates the strap of the support, which may be of any ordinary and well-known form, such strap having an end portion, as at 2, doubled to form a loop, which loop is employed for retaining the plate 3, carrying the stud or button e.. Above this loop 2 the material of the strap l is formed into a second loop 5, the last-mentioned loop serai No. masse. (No mais.)

`supportingthe widened or enlarged portion 6 of the button-engaging bail 7, the lower portion of said bail being narrowed and elongated to form a button-engaging tongue 8. Itwill be observed by reference to the drawingsthat this tongue portion- 8 is slightly .curved or bent outward, this curvature perbail, such locking member being doubled orbent at its central portion, so as to form an inwardly-extending projection or tongue 1l, the sides of such tongue forming the Walls or sides of a recess, the construction being such that when the locking Y member is swung downwardly upon its hinge, so as to permit l the button 4 to enter the recess formed as above described, the button will be permitted to have a certain' amount of play between the curves or sides of the loops forming the tongue l1 of said locking member.

From the above description, takenV in connection with the drawings, the construction and operation of my improvement will be readily apparent. `Presuming thedevice to be inthe positions shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the edge'of the stocking, which in the present instance is shown atAin Fig. 2, is passed over the button and the head of said button is passed between the arms of the \bail at the enlarged portion thereof, so that the shank of said button mayslide down between the sides of the tongue 8 to the end thereof, as is shown in Fig. 2.` The hinged locking member 10 is then swung down, so that the stocking edge is clamped and held between this hinged locking member and the shank of the button or stud, said stud being prevented from moving upward from the tongue by the hinged locking member.

It will be evident that the forming of the locking member with the tongue ll enables the button to have sufficient play so that the movement of the person when walking will not cause the button to force the locking member upward, thereby permitting the stocking IOO to drop, as is the case with many of the fasteners now in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As an article of manufacture, a garmentsupporter comprising a strap, a button or stud secured thereto, a button-engaging loop carried by said strap, and a locking member hinged to said button-engaging loop, said member having a tongue formed with a recess, said recessed tongue extending back of the head of the button when the aforesaid member is-in its locking position, substantially as set forth.

2. As an article of manufacture, a garmentsupporter comprising a strap, a plate secured thereto, a stud or button carried by said plate, a button-engaging loop flexibly supported by said strap, said loop being formed with a narrowed outwardly-curved tongue portion, and a locking member hinged to said loop Vabove the tongue portion thereof, said lookin g member having the recessed portion Within which shank the button is adapted to lie, substantially as set forth.

3. A garment-supporter comprising astrap, a button, a loop formed with an elongated buttonengaging tongue supportedlby said strap above said button, and a locking member hinged to said loop above the elongated tongue portion thereof, said locking member being curved or bent at its central portion to form an inwardly-extending projection, the sides of the projection forming a recess through which the shank of the button may extend. when the locking member is in its normally locking. position, the construction being such that the button Will beretained securely within the elongated tongue portion, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRANCES CLOTILDA MGDONALD.

Witnesses:

FRANK R. LINDoP, C. H. GooDYKooN'rz. 

